Making the news today....

[sime42]

On 22/08/2025 at 23:46, Oldfeller said:

Yep, definitely sounds like the government,, has all the usual traits.

but it'll be making a few of them a fortune. sure as sh1t.

 

Nah, not this lot, not so much. It'll be making the big oil and gas companies a fat wad though that's for sure. 

[sime42]

On 23/08/2025 at 10:51, Steven P said:

 

I'd tend to agree with that, a cheap supermarket sticking plaster to try to fix a problem (falls off after 5 minutes), far better not to create the problem in the first place.

 

I will pick you up on something there: 'Lazy, ill-informed politicians' - is there another type of politician?

 

How dare you? Yeah, most are obviously of that ilk. Although I do believe that there are a few on the sidelines who are motived and well informed. The problem is that they don't get anywhere in this foolhardy new world of personality politics.

 

 

[Mark J]

@Stubby I didn't even edit that one! It seems that twitter links to Wikileaks articles about arms sales to Israel don't copy over to this site. 

[tree-fancier123]

3 hours ago, Mark J said:

@Stubby I didn't even edit that one! It seems that twitter links to Wikileaks articles about arms sales to Israel don't copy over to this site. 

it was readable yesterday - I saw the MOD had given the Israeli firm and Raytheon £2m each to develop their bids.

A £2bn contract for training - using modern tech

[Mark J]

Farage's small boats plan not about policy but putting Labour and Tories on the spot

NEWS.SKY.COM

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Nigel Farage's speech was not so much about presenting real policy proposals but about putting Labour and the Tories on the backfoot, Sam Coates writes.

 

[Johnsond]

Epping asylum hotel resident told girls he wanted to have babies with them, court hears

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Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu accused of sexual assault and harassment against two 14-year-olds and...

Not hard to see why mothers are now taking to the streets to keep this scum away from their daughters. 
Regarding Farages speech, it’s amusing to see amount of mainstream media who are now asking questions. Questions imo for which he gave very honest and sensible straightforward answers. 

[BillQ]

35 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Not hard to see why mothers are now taking to the streets to keep this scum away from their daughters. 

Glitter, Savile, Harris, etc etc

 

Total scapegoating 

[tree-fancier123]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

Farage's small boats plan not about policy but putting Labour and Tories on the spot

NEWS.SKY.COM

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Nigel Farage's speech was not so much about presenting real policy proposals but about putting Labour and the Tories on the backfoot, Sam Coates writes.

 

so the 1951 refugee act means we now have an acceptance rate of 98% for Sudanese and Syrians, 87% for Eritreans. No matter how many come, they have a legal right and we have to let them stay.

I believe this illegal migration issue is so serious there should be motion of no confidence.

Callaghan 1979 and McDonald 1924 both lost.

Not likely to happen with Labour's thumping majority.

My fear is that so many foreigners settle they eventually become the majority. Absolute disaster happening in slow mo. Anyone wanting to cut immigration thought of as backward and racist. 'We need immigrants with the birth rate falling blah blah'

This country was fine in the 60's 70's and 80's. An extra 15 or 20 million people has an only forced up the price of land

 

[AHPP]

59 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

This country was fine in the 60's 70's and 80's. An extra 15 or 20 million people has an only forced up the price of land

 

It wasn't. It was already on the death spiral of bad money and building restrictions. More people speed up the downfall but land prices would still increase with fewer people. The rich would still hoard it because money loses value and the the poor would still pay to rent it because they can't afford to pay a planner to magically make a piece of land legally habitable instead. 

Edited August 26 by AHPP

[tree-fancier123]

my old man was a machine operator for a while and later prison officer, they were buying nice houses in their mid to late twenties on average incomes, you didnt need planning because there were affordable older houses with big gardens. Unlike today where building plots are .25 acre and the finished build with postage stamp lawn is half a million.

So many relying on bank of mum and dad, because immigrants pushed up housing costs.

House price to income in seventies and eighties probably averaged four times, its about 8 now